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Keynote VP LLoyd Taylor Demystifies Web Performance
Posted by: Jordi on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 04:10 PM
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"The key thing is understanding what it is you're trying to improve," Keynote VP Lloyd Taylor told the E-Commerce Times. "The classic problem is the army's only fighting the last war. Well, the implementers of Web sites are only fixing the last problem. For a long time, people would just throw hardware at things."
Will IPv6 alter Web performance at all? I don't think it's really material. For one thing, it's going to be transparent to the majority of end users, assuming it ever happens. The difference between the academic Internet -- how it should work -- and the real Internet -- how it does work -- is the academic Internet is always focused on what's best, whereas the real Internet or the commercial Internet is based on what works and what works well enough.

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